It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...

Sorry, no magic answer.  But I look forward to eComm 2009 to provide a lot of ideas in the first week of March.  The speaker lineup is posted and the list is both impressive and diverse.  Like last year, the format is a single track with a veritable firehose of information, mostly in 15 minute an...

I'll be at Internet Telephony Expo West in Los Angeles beginning late morning tomorrow.  I have a few meetings scheduled tomorrow afternoon and two presentations later in the show.  NMS also has a booth on the show floor where I should be when I'm not otherwise engaged. At 9am on Wednesday, I'm gi...

The Internet has disrupted music publishing, encyclopedias, classified advertising, news and is poised to disrupt both television and the movies.  What else? Education is overdue, but most of today's academics still don't get it. For decades, even centuries, we've seen increased productivity in agr...

I see and hear a lot of confusion about next generation networks (NGN).  In most cases people are using the term roughly as the ITU-T defines it: A Next Generation Network (NGN) is a packet-based network able to provide services including Telecommunication Services and able to make use of multi...

Tomorrow (May 6th) at 9 am EDT (1300 GMT) I'm doing a webinar on: Mobile Messaging- Its Not Just About Texting Mobile Text messaging has created new opportunities for additional revenue resources for global mobile operators.  Industry analysts predicts mobile messaging to reach $65B in annual r...

In February, the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis published three studies (1, 2, 3) on spectrum licensing and spectrum utilization.  Thanks to Nick Ruark for pointing them out. Since the papers discuss tradeoffs between licensed and various “unlicensedâ€� approaches to...

One of the things that surprised me at eComm was the audience reaction to hearing that most cell sites have only one, or perhaps two, T1 or E1 links going to them.  eComm was a sophisticated audience but they weren't familiar with this kind of operational detail. Of course, I've seen a lot of d...

Lee Dryburgh initiated a great thread in the Emerging Communications public group entitled What would your perfect phone be? There are 14 messages there at this moment with a lot of good ideas, but my first thought was the term "phone" is too limiting.  Indeed, some of the corresponde...

Time Warner Cable's planned experiment with tiered charging for Internet access has generated a flurry of coverage in the blogsphere, but no new insights (at least that I've seen). The primary problem ISP's complain about is that 5% of their customers use 90% of the available bandwidth and when they...